"Searching For A Gem"

Bob Dylan's Officially
Released
Rarities and Obscurities

Video: Honourable
Mentions

This page contains video items that aren't eligible for the main
Searching For A
Gem VHS & DVD
lists because Bob does not personally perform on them, but
are nevertheless of interest to Dylan collectors. There's no specific
qualification for inclusion other than I have the item or it's been notified to
me by a contributor as having a noteworthy Dylan connection. All candidates for inclusion will be assessed on their
merits! Honourable Mentions audio items are here.
All Honourable Mentions items with covers of Blowin' In The Wind are now
here.

If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to
existing entries, please let me know!
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This unauthorised film made by Joel Gilbert was
originally available in the UK only from "Isis" magazine in 2002. These home movies of the 1966 World Tour were shot on 8mm colour film
without sound by
the drummer of the 1966 world tour, Mickey Jones, and were also available on both DVD and VHS
directly from Mickey himself . My copy came from "Isis" and does
not have a catalogue number on the insert or the DVD. On
3 Feb 2004 the movie was re-released in the USA by StudioWorks, but I have a
scan of the DVD only. This documentary was
released in the UK by Wienerworld in 2005. For a 2006 revised version with
material from 1974 also, see below. For other 2005 and 2006 unauthorised Dylan
documentaries by Joel Gilbert, see below.

Thanks to Jack Guerreiro
and Vladimir Krutoshinskij for information and scans.

About this release, Derek Barker says: "It's another Chrome Dreams
release, in association with Isis Magazine as well as being released by
Chrome Dreams/Isis , I worked as the researcher for the project, which
hopefully is part one of a three part series that will cover Dylan from
birth to today. There is no Dylan music, it is purely an historical
documentary film. We interviewed two or three people that have not been seen
or heard before as well as few of the usual suspects. There are 13
interviewees in all, and that includes Clinton, C.P Lee and me."

This
unauthorised documentary will be sold in the UK and the USA.

Thanks to Bob Stacey for finding this item. I'll add more information
when I've had time to watch it! Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for the
Brazilian release.

This unauthorised DVD documentary by Joel Gilbert does not contain any Dylan audio or
video performances, but it does have an interview with photographer Barry
Feinstein and a good selection of his marvellous pictures of Bob from the
tour with The Hawks in 1966 and the tour with The Band in 1974.

For 2002 and 2006 Dylan documentaries by Joel Gilbert, see above and
below. Barry Feinstein sadly died on 20 Oct 2011, for more pictures
of Bob by Barry, see
.

Thanks to Joel Gilbert for information about his new
(unauthorised) project called
Bob Dylan 1975-1981: Rolling Thunder and The Gospel Years. For 2002 and 2005 Dylan documentaries by Joel Gilbert, see above.

This
unauthorised documentary includes first time interviews with Rubin
"Hurricane" Carter, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, violinist Scarlet
Rivera, bassist Rob Stoner, Pastor Bill Dwyer (Vineyard Church), background
singer Regina McCrary, producer Jerry Wexler, keyboardist Spooner Oldham and
many more. It also includes "newly unearthed TV interviews and film
clips", along with a soundtrack that includes these musicians (also
sold separately).

Thanks to Paul S. Levine for further information including
the delayed release date.

Thanks to Jack Guerreiro for scans and details
of the footage (I assume the Dylan clips are included without sound for
copyright reasons, so I haven't allocated them an R-number):

Brief on-stage clip from Tour 74 (no sound)

Clips from "The World Of John Hammond" 1975 TV Special (no sound)

Various on-stage clips from the Rolling Thunder Revue tour (not from
"Renaldo and Clara") (no sound)

On stage clips of the 1978 World Tour (no sound)

On stage clips from the 1979-81 tours, including footage shot by
Howard Alk in Avignon (July 25, 1981) (no sound)

Interview with Pat Crosby (image and
sound) shot 15 May 1980 in Pittsburgh, PA, for KDKA-TV and broadcast that
same day.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for scans
of the soundtrack CD, who adds: Among the "Special Features" bonus, there
is a nice "Journey to Hibbing" by Joel Gilbert (11:16)
and a Photo Gallery 1975-1981, with a lot of nice
pictures with Bob. There is also a CD with the soundtrack, Highway 61
Entertainment BD0503CD: 21 tunes by Joel Gilbert and his
band Highway 61 Revisited, Scarlet Rivera, Bruce Langhorne, Rob Stoner and
Regina McCrary. There are no covers of Bob songs, but covers of traditional
or standard songs, plus six original instrumental Rob Stoner compositions,
which evoke the "Bob musical world" from the two periods.

This set comprises the three already
released Joel Gilbert documentaries; Bob Dylan 1975-1981
Rolling Thunder and The Gospel Years [2006, see above], Bob Dylan World Tours
1966-1974 Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein [2005, see above], and Bob Dylan
1966 World Tour, The Home Movies Through the Camera of Mickey Jones
[2002, see above], the Rolling Thunder and The Gospel Years CD soundtracks, and
nine bonus postcards only available in this boxed set.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information and
to Jack Guerreiro for scans.

These home movies of the 1966 World Tour
were shot on 8mm colour film without sound by the drummer of the 1966 world
tour, Mickey Jones, and directed by Joel Gilbert. The documentary was
originally released in 2002, see above. This revised release includes new
filmed interviews with Charlie Daniels, Johnny Rivers, Trini Lopez, Mickey
Jones and others.

The UK press reported in Nov 2004 that Sienna Miller was
set to star in a biography of Edie Sedgwick to be called "Factory Girl", due
then for release in mid-2005. The film, to be directed by George Hickenlooper,
reportedly "revolves around an unconventional love triangle of sorts that
developed between Edie Sedgwick, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol". Bob Dylan's
lawyers made moves to stop the project, and the Bob Dylan character (played
by Hayden Christensen of "Star Wars" fame) was renamed Billy Quinn
(as of course in Quinn The Eskimo and also the lawyer character played by
Richard Gere in the musical "Chicago"). The film was eventually released in
2007, with no mention of Bob by name or use of Bob's music. The fact that
the character played by Hayden Christensen wore a corduroy cap and played a
guitar and a harmonica in a holder was purely coincidence...

Thanks to Jack Guerreiro for information about this DVD. It looks as
if it is Part 2 of the 2006 Joel Gilbert documentary
Bob Dylan 1975-1981: Rolling Thunder and The Gospel Years and
will therefore contain footage from the 1979-81
tours without sound for copyright reasons.

Yet another Joel Gilbert unauthorised documentary, this one is based on
the Video 8 "home movies" taken by Winston Watson, who was Bob's touring
band drummer for five years from 1992. There is no Dylan music for copyright
reasons, with the soundtrack provided by Joel Gilbert's Dylan tribute band
Highway 61 Revisited with guest musicians Winston Watson, Scarlet Rivera,
Rob Stoner and Bruce Langhorne.

Thanks to Clint Weiler of MVD
Entertainment Group for information and pictures. For more information, see
here .

This film about the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama mentions Bob
recording
Slow Train Coming
and
Saved
there with Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett, and includes a still photo of him
standing outside the studio. There's no Dylan musical content.

Thanks to Fred Muller for information and to Steven Fant for the photo.